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The Good Robot — 124 episodes

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1

Sperm banks and palliative care with Kelly and Anne McGuire

2

Sustaining life in crisis with Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire

3

Fugitive Sensing with Michele Friedner

4

The Rise, Fall, and Rise of TikTok with Crystal Abidin

5

Community technology is the future with Dave Griffiths

6

The Battle Over Data Centers with Tara Merk

7

The Future of Data Centers and Digital Sovereignty with Friederike von Franque

8

The Revolutionary Microscopes Powering Global Tech Equality with Richard Bowman

9

Designers: Let's Create Abolitionist and Black Liberatory Futures! with Terresa Hardaway

10

Discovering the Universe through Knitting with Elisabetta Matsumoto

11

Bonus Episode: The Internet's First Influencer, Tila Tequila, with Lisa Nakamura

12

The Inattention Economy: Race, Gender, and Technology with Lisa Nakamura

13

Race and Orientalism in E-Gaming with Tara Fickle

14

The Role of Designers in AI Ethics with Tomasz Hollanek

15

What Makes a Drone “Good”? with Beryl Pong

16

The Vulnerabilities of Drone Warfare with Amy Gaeta

17

AI Needs Fat Liberation! with Aisha Sobey

18

Can Programming Languages be Feminist? with Felienne Hermans

19

Rethinking 'Creepy' Technology with Nassim Parvin and Neda Atanasoski

20

Symbiosis From Bacteria to AI with N. Katherine Hayles

21

Transhumanist Fantasies with Alexander Thomas

22

Data Bodies and Arab Futurisms with Laila Shereen Sakr

23

Managing the Body through Food Law and Policy with Kyla Wazana Tompkins

24

Re-imagining Voice Assistants with Stina Hasse Jørgensen and Frederik Juutilainen

25

Critiquing Tech through Comedy with Laura Allcorn

26

Surfing the Web in Sync with the Sun with Anne Pasek

27

Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston

28

Resisting Mental Health Ward Surveillance with Stop Oxevision

29

Lithium Extraction in the Atacama with Sebastián Lehuedé

30

Machine Vision with Jill Walker Rettberg

31

Art, Technology and Justice with Yasmine Boudiaf

32

Gut Feminism and Feminist Approaches to Biology with Elizabeth Wilson

33

Janneke Parrish on Worker Solidarity and Why Tech Unions Matter

34

Hot Take: Does AI Know How You Feel?

35

The EU AI Act Part 2, with Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West from AI NOW

36

The EU AI Act Part 1, with Caterina and Daniel from Access Now

37

What on Earth Is Ethical Maths? with Maurice Chiodo

38

Can Technology Save us from Housework? with Helen Hester

39

Poisoning AI and Silencing Alexa with Heather Zheng

40

Gamergate, Harassment, and Feminist Design with Caroline Sinders

41

The curse of online beauty culture with Ellen Atlanta

42

Needlework and History's Hidden Technologies with Isabella Rosner

43

How China surveils Uyghur Muslims with Darren Byler

44

The Racial History of Dermatology with Thuy Linh Tu

45

Hot Take: The Good Robot BOOK!

46

The 'AI Mirror' with Shannon Vallor

47

Why You Shouldn't Believe the AI Hype with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

48

Why the Stories We Tell About AI Matter with Melissa Heikkilä

49

Rethinking Large Language Models (LLMs) with Rebecca Woods

50

Hot Take: Happy Holidays & a new book from Eleanor!

51

Rewriting Wikipedia with Jess Wade

52

Hot Take: Can you own your data?

53

Digital Authoritarianism and Press Freedom with Arzu Geybulla

54

Technology, psychedelics and healing with K Allado-McDowell

55

Good corporations, AI ethics and value pluralism with Giada Pistilli

56

Facial Recognition and Surveillance in Palestine with Matt Mahmoudi

57

Hot Take: Fighting Fears and Fantasies of East Asia (and AI)

58

Generative AI, Creativity, and what AI means for the Music Industry with Hayleigh Bosher

59

Why Sexism, Racism and Ableism in Tech are 'More than a Glitch' with Meredith Broussard

60

Indigenous Sciences, Technologies, and Science Fiction with Grace Dillon

61

Unexpected History of Computing with Mar Hicks

62

Hot Take: Twitter is to X as Barbie is to Ken

63

Buddhist Approaches to Machine Consciousness with Peter Hershock

64

Hot Take: Detecting Sexuality with AI is Fake Science

65

Worker Surveillance and the US Trucking Industry with Karen Levy

66

Hot Take: Can AI De-Bias Hiring?

67

Art, Digital Archives and Activism with Ofri Cnaani

68

Hot Take: Most AI Scientists in Films Suck

69

Full Stack Feminism and the Digital Humanities with Caroline Bassett and Sharon Webb

70

Hot Take: The Future of Life's Call for a Pause on 'Giant AI' - Doomsday or Distraction?

71

Feminism, Disability, and the Politics of Technology with Laura Forlano

72

The Good Robot LIVE! from Berlin

73

The Politics of Captions with Louise Hickman

74

Science Fiction in Translation with Regina Kanyu Wang and Emily Jin

75

AI Policy Between the UK and Africa with Bridget Boakye

76

Voice Recognition Technologies and Border Control with Pedro Oliviera

77

Big Tech's Colonial Takeover with Michael Kwet

78

Changing Computing Cultures with Abeba Birhane

79

Queer Approaches to AI and Computing with Arjun Subramonian

80

Creating Just Language Technologies with Su Lin Blodgett

81

Transhumanism and Existential Risk with Josh Schuster and Derek Woods

82

The Feedback Loop between Tech Innovation and Science Fiction with Chen Qiufan

83

The Exorcism of Emotion in Rational Science (and AI) with Lorraine Daston

84

Queer Data with Kevin Guyan

85

Data Activism Against Everyday Racism with Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson

86

Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore

87

Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Research Ethics with Sarah Franklin

88

Anti-Asian Racism across Time and Space with Michelle N. Huang

89

Understanding Tech Ethics from the Ground Up with Sareeta Amrute

90

Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think with Sophie Lewis

91

AI Colonialism and Changing the Stories We Tell About Tech with Karen Hao

92

Large Language Models and Misogyny in Tech with Margaret Mitchell

93

Machine Enlightenment with Soraj Hongladarom

94

Avoiding Universalism and 'Silver Bullets' in Tech Design with Os Keyes

95

Vague AI Ethics Principles and why Automatic Gender Recognition is Nonsense with Alex Hanna

96

Engineers, Values, and Giving the Public a Voice with Virginia Dignum

97

Debunking Myths in Technology: Intelligence, Survival, Sexuality with Blaise Agüera y Arcas

98

Drone Warfare and Undoing Everyday Militarism with Kate Chandler

99

'Craptions', Assistive Technologies, and the Real Meaning of Accessible Technology with Meryl Alper

100

Facebook ‘Friendship’ and Predicting the Future with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

101

Gender, Security, and Technology with Leonie Tanczer

102

Indigenous Work in AI with Jason Edward Lewis

103

Afrofeminist Approaches to AI Governance and Policy with Neema Iyer

104

Repurposing an ATM, Joy and Decolonial Politics in Puerto Rico with Frances Negron-Mutaner

105

The Myth of Autonomy with Maya Indira Ganesh

106

Slowing Down and Teaching AI Ethics with Jess Smith

107

India’s Biometric Identification System, Representation and Governance with Ranjit Singh

108

AI, Religious Studies, and Liberation Theology with Dylan Doyle-Burke

109

Gender, Technology, and Racial Embodiment with Anne Anlin Cheng

110

Rosi Braidotti: Bonus Episode!

111

Posthuman Knowledge and Technology with Rosi Braidotti

112

Privacy, Surveillance and Civil Rights with Jennifer Lee

113

AI, Disability, and Accessibility with Cynthia Bennett

114

Decolonising AI Narratives with Kanta Dihal

115

AI, Racial Capitalism, and Labour with Neda Atanasoski

116

Datasets for African Languages with David Adelani

117

Tech, Resistance, and Invention with Jack Halberstam

118

How Youth Activism is Shaking Up AI with Sneha Revanur

119

Data Feminism with Catherine D'Ignazio

120

Feminist App Design with Priya Goswami

121

Buddhism and AI Ethics with The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi

122

Countering Online Sex Abuse with Anita Williams

123

Feminism, Embodied Cognition and AI Regulation with N. Katherine Hayles

124

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